------=_Part_61719_27853742.1179858853025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Why does Ruby frown upon putting spaces between a function name and the left parenthesis of its argument lists? Why does it matter? Is there some other language construct that uses a similar syntax that confuses Ruby so much? I just ran into an error with code like this: print ( somefunc ( 1 ) + "abc" ) But rewriting it as below fixed the error: print ( somefunc( 1 ) + "abc" ) Mike Steiner ------=_Part_61719_27853742.1179858853025--